Trouble is brewing between the Church of Scientology and German public broadcaster ARD ahead of the TV premiere of a drama portraying the controversial faith as dangerous and unethical.
Three-dimensional TV pioneers are predicting groundbreaking new technology will be in most German living rooms within just a few years and that it will revolutionise storytelling and live sport without the need for funky 3D glasses.
In the latest installment of <b>Portnoyâs Stammtisch</b>, The Localâs column about life in Germany, Portnoy examines the countryâs beloved TV treasure <i>Tatort</i>.
Germans are becoming bigger TV couch potatoes, a study revealed Tuesday, with the average person spending more than three-and-a-half hours in front of the television each day.
The German state foreign broadcasting network <i>Deutsche Welle</i> (DW) was the target of a deliberate jamming signal originating in Iran, according to a report in news magazine <i>Der Spiegel</i>.
The chairman of Germany's association of private broadcasters (VPRT) has threatened to make a formal complaint to the European Commission over state broadcasting licence fees.
The CEO of Germany's leading telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom criticised industry regulation authorities for failing to take into account the pressures of new competition.
The two parties of Germany's ruling coalition, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP), are at loggerheads over the issue of licence fees for state broadcasting.
Born amid Cold War rivalry yet loved by children on both sides of the Iron Curtain, Germanyâs bedtime TV character the Sandman celebrates his 50th anniversary this week.
Heavily indebted private German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 wants to move into paid TV channels to help increase revenues, financial daily <i>Handelsblatt</i> reported on Wednesday.
Germanyâs hated GEZ public broadcasting licence fees â required of everyone who owns a television or radio â may be changing soon, daily <i>Handelsblatt</i> reported on Tuesday.
The Local's series "Making it in Germany" presents <b>Bruce Darnell</b>, an American choreographer and model best known as an entertainment show judge on German television alongside Heidi Klum and Dieter Bohlen.
Germany was aflutter on Friday after an embarrassing blunder by a news reader for public broadcaster ZDF, who confused âphishingâ with the sexual term âfistingâ while referring to recent online attacks on email accounts worldwide.
Dieter Bohlen, a hectoring jury member on Germanyâs version of Pop Idol, is officially an artist, according to a ruling by the Federal Social Court in Kassel on Thursday.
Billed as the longest programme in television history, a 24-hour panorama of work, fame, sex, the arts and poverty in Berlin two decades after the fall of the Wall will premiere on Saturday.
Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent of British daily The Times, expresses concern about the titillating yet terrifying prospect of a âsuper nannyâ state in Germany.
An association of concerned German parents failed on Wednesday with an eleventh-hour attempt to stop the airing of a new reality TV show involving teenagers looking after other people's babies.
Popular TV presenter and music producer Stefan Raab has abandoned negotiations with state television broadcaster ARD on creating next yearâs German entry for the Eurovision song contest, news weekly <i>Der Spiegel</i> reported Friday.
A fist-sized wad of paper that sparked controversy during a UEFA Cup semi-final between Hamburg SV and Werder Bremen two weeks ago is now for sale on internet auction site Ebay. The auction ends Wednesday night.
A new reality television show due to be launched in June, in which teenagers will be filmed looking after babies "donated" for the programme, sparked outrage in Germany on Thursday.
At an average of six hours and 34 minutes of free time per day, Germans came only second to Belgians in an international study on leisure released this week.
Annemarie Eilfeld, who was voted out of the semi-final of Germanyâs TV popstar contest <i>Deutschland Sucht Den Superstar</i> on Saturday, has demanded a redo of the show after broadcaster RTL mistakenly swapped telephone voting numbers.
Politicians, broadcasters and football functionaries on Monday all roundly rejected an idea by FC Bayern Munich manager Uli HoeneĂ to slap a âŹ2 fee on all German households with a TV to help finance the Bundesliga.
Heidi Klum has thrown one of her most promising candidates off the current series of Germanyâs Next Top Model for showing her the finger in front of the cameras.
